Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammad Al-Atifi

Yemeni Defense Minister, Major General Mohammad Al-Atifi said that this coming period will witness “painful strikes deep within coalition countries’ territories, and in areas they do not expect, and this is the Yemeni people’s legitimate right,” as part of Operation Yemen Hurricane. He also said that the aggression’s escalation is not helping end the war; rather, it is increasing its geographical scope, undermining opportunities for peace, and destabilizing the region.

Al-Atifi noted that all of the aggression’s escalatory practices “are pushing us to new strategic options from which the enemy has no escape but through defeat and regret,” adding that the latest escalation is a US-Israeli escalation in the name of the defeated aggression countries.

According to Al-Atifi, the strikes that have been landing so far by drones and missile strikes within the enemy territory are only warning messages so that the aggressors would return to their senses.

The Yemeni Defense Minister declared that the victorious do not strike civilian targets and kill civilians, stressing that they have been avoiding civilian targets for the past seven years, and have abided by all wartime values, rules of engagement, and the principles of international humanitarian law.

Dozens of Saudi-led coalition mercenaries were hit yesterday after a ballistic missile targeted a military site of theirs in Marib, according to Yemeni armed forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree.

"The missile force was able to target a large gathering of US-Saudi-led coalition of aggression mercenaries in the third military area in Marib using a ballistic missile, and the strike was accurate," Saree said on Twitter.